In 2025, fire departments serving Woodland Park responded to 66 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $22K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Cooking fire, confined to container lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 67% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Aug dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
309 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $548K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 26 | — | |
| 2022 | 76 | — | |
| 2023* | 25 | — | |
| 2024 | 116 | — | |
| 2025 | 66 | -43.1% |
* Well below Woodland Park's usual volume. That almost always means one or more departments didn't submit a full year to NFIRS, not that fires dropped, so no year-over-year change is shown for it.
For the 0 building fires Woodland Park departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 51 building fires investigators classified across 2021–2025. The room or location where ignition occurred — kitchens, bedrooms, exterior, vehicle areas — tells you where to focus prevention.
| # | Area of origin | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 22 | 43.1% | |
| 2 | Other | 11 | 21.6% | |
| 3 | Outside area, other | 5 | 9.8% | |
| 4 | Vehicle area, other | 4 | 7.8% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 6 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 8 | Equipment or service area, other | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 9 | Heating room or area, water heater area | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 10 | Substructure area or space, crawl space | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 3 | 5.9% |
NFIRS Heat Source (HEAT_SOURC) — the physical thing that started it. Spark or ember from operating equipment, an open flame, smoking materials, or hot embers from a fireplace are the leading culprits nationwide. Here's the Woodland Park mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 28 | 54.9% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 16 | 31.4% | |
| 3 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 6 | Match | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 7 | Chemical, natural heat source, other | 1 | 2.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Woodland Park departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $21,950 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $3,599 | Cooking fire, confined to container | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $21 | Electrical wiring/equipment problem, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $1 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Woodland Park sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
5 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 2 | |
| 30-39 | 1 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 10,002 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 750 | 47.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 33.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 20.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 623 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 23.5 mi | |
| 1994 | Smoking | 500 | 36.4 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 485 | 23.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 481 | 28.3 mi | |
| 2010 | Firearms and explosives use | 475 | 28.7 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 468 | 33.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 450 | 41.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 410 | 27.2 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07424 | 309 |
Six New Jersey cities with population within ±25% of Woodland Park. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
A 30-minute weekend can cut your home's exposure substantially. These four checklists are a good starting point.
Numbers reflect incidents reported by participating fire departments to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Public Data Release for calendar year 2025. NFIRS is voluntary — about 23,000 of roughly 30,000 US fire departments report — so totals are a strong indicator, not a complete census. Per-capita comparisons use 2023 ACS population estimates. Wildland fire data complements NFIRS with NIFC and USFS perimeters. Active-fire counts come from a dated NIFC snapshot, not a live feed.